Sentence examples for is rendered toothless from inspiring English sources
A regional forum run by the Association of South-East Asian Nations is rendered toothless by China's aversion to multilateral diplomacy.
Independent commissions, including on human rights, have been rendered toothless.
Under Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the report declared, "Parliament has been rendered toothless, independent state agencies shorn of their powers.
But Ryan's approach was rendered toothless when the issue's brutal politics forced him to retreat from his initial tough plan to simply cap the growth in government spending on Medicare and stick the inevitable overage onto beneficiaries.
Mr. Reid plans to put forward a modest measure to increase the penalties for those who purchase guns illegally, known as straw purchasing, but without a strong background check bill, that bill could be rendered toothless.
But there is a sense that many of America's most admirable qualities have been so trampled in the debate over war as to have been rendered toothless or even nonexistent.
Satire, the argument goes, has been rendered toothless by this period of political crisis, which itself has become indistinguishable from parody.
She is rendered speechless.
Bad sex is rendered flawlessly.
All knowledge is rendered illusory.
